In Noces and subsequently L'Homme révolté he constructs a mythopoetics of the Mediterranean which mythologizes Algeria's history and transcends the darkness of European politics. Almost all of his works celebrate this mythopoetics.

When my father had the bit between his teeth he would work all day and half the night, barely stopping to eat, snapping at anyone who interrupted him.

And him in hardy battle overcame, Should have mine only daughter to his Dame...: }}

Two syllables... abscinded from the rest.